Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-30
TARIFF REFORMISTS.
The Massachusetts, Tariff Reform League
Give a Dinner in Boston.

BOsTON, Dec. 29-The meeting and ban
quet of the Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League at the Brunswick tonight wert
highly successful. the arrangements being
carried out upon most elaborate scale
There was present large numbero of prom
! inent politicians and government officials
| both from Massachusetts, and elsewhere
Russell Lowell, Gen. John NJ
Corse, Hon. Patrick A Collins
Congressman w. C. P. Breckenridge, of
Kentucky; W L. Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia and Senator John I. Morgan, o.
Alabama. Shortly before O'Clock the
guests and members began to arrive and
at 5:45 the business meeting of the league
was held. Resolutions endorsing the
message of President Cleveland Were
adopted. Officers were then elected. after
| which the party proceeded to the banquet
hall. 1t was O'Clock when the gentlemen
TO the number of 3l2 were seated in the
banquet hall, and Rev. James Freeman
Clark, d. D., invoked divine blessing.
After the banquet Hon. James Russell
Lowell called the meeting to order.
In the course of his address Mr.. Lowell
applause. At his first reference TO PreSi-
dent Cleveland DR.. William Everett, Jr.
proposed three cheers for Cleveland. which
were given with a will Mr.. Lowell, dur
ing his remarks said: One of the reasons
that chiefly suggested the Opportuneness
OF our coming together here has been the
presidents message at the opening OF
the present congress. Personally,
/ confess that | feel myself
strongly attracted to Mr. Cleveland, as the
best representative of the higher type of
AmerIcaniSm that we have seen since
Lincoln was Snatched from us. But we
are not here to thank him as the head Of a
party We are here to feicltate each other
that the presidential chair has d man in
it, and this means that every word he says
is weighted with what he is. We are here
10 felictate each other that this man I'M
derstandS politics to mean bust
ness, not chicanery: plain speak
ing, not palterng with US in
double sense; that he has
the courage to tell the truth to the coun-
try without regard TO personal or party
consequences. and thus to remind Us That
a country not worth telling the truth to
is not worth living in: nay, deserves to
have lies told it, and to take the inevitable
consequence in calamity. Our politics
call loudly for a broom. Mr.. Cleveland.
/ think has found the broom and
begun to ply IT. But gentle
men, the president has set us the
example not only of courage but of good
sense and moderation. He has kept strictly
TO his text and his purpose. He has shown
us that there was such thing as being
protected too much, and that we had pro
tected our shipping interests so efTectually
that they had ceased TO need protection
by ceasing to exist. In this limiting the
field of his warming and his courses
he has done wisely and we shall do wisely
in following his example His facts and
his figures Will work ali the more effect
ually. But we must be patient with them
and expect them 70 act slowly. Enormous
interests are involved and must be treated
tenderly.
Senatar Morgan, of Alabama, Congress
man Breckenridge, OF kentucky, Wilson,
OF West Virginia. Rogers, of Arkansas.
and others made brief arguments against
the protective tariff 1t was midnight
when the gathering broke up.